Matura makes waves

Considering all the accolades collected by Tafadzwa Matura during her netball career so far, its quite funny to learn that she actually hated the sport as a kid.

Now Matura spends some of her spare time reminiscing about the coaches that pushed her and all the pep talks she received. At some point, she was even punished for missing training sessions.

Zim faces 30 000 tractor deficit

THE Government is working on intensifying its farm mechanisation as it forges ahead to improve agricultural productivity amid revelations the country is faced with a deficit of more than 30 000 tractors.

Hoodwinked by hubby

I am a 27-year-old disgruntled woman. I am married and I have two boys. My husband has another wife who just had a baby girl. He ignores me and my children at all costs. I bought him a phone and it is filled with their photos. Every time I try to complain he threatens me saying he will commit suicide. I am not very educated and I am a part time maid. Anondishungurudza achiti ndiri driver wechikorobho. At one point he even threatened to burn my birth certificate when I had called him out for not being present in our lives. What can I do to feel less neglected?

Reading history points you towards greatness

You become what you think about. History gives you thinking raw materials and tools. Critical thinking helps you understand the thing, behind the thing, which is the thing. Worlds of thought weave the works that we are taught. Look closely at history to understand trends of thought.

Macadamia nuts offer export opportunities for Zim

From a small orchard to a large farm, there are crops and plants that are guaranteed to get you good returns when exported.

One such crop is macadamia nuts, an edible seed of the evergreen macadamia tree that belongs to the Proteaceae family (flowering plant predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere).

Integrity is key in relationships

I have extensively talked about the issue of integrity and its attributes over the past weeks.

It is clear that we all value the virtues that are found on a person with integrity. This is because we all want other people to treat us well and behave themselves in a manner that does not infringe our peace and well-being.

Clean bill of health for nurses intake

The e-recruitment system for trainee nurses has been successfully implemented by the Ministry of Health and Child Care with no complaints received so far from the first batch of students that were short listed through the system.

Plans are presently underway to use the innovation in all recruitments to training programmes administered by the ministry.

ICC verdict imminent

With every passing week, the walls around Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani keep closing in.

Although he survived the clash with the Sports and Recreation Commission, the International Cricket Council suspension, the retirement of some of the Chevrons top charges, Mukuhlani has certainly seen better days.

Sublime Platinum Magic

FC Platinum went on a second half rampage to totally annihilate hosts UD Songo and boot them out of the Total Caf Champions League in front of their own fans at the Estadio Feraviaro de Beira yesterday.

Women in politics: Controversies, struggles and male bias

The birth of a new Zimbabwe at independence filled many people – both men and women – with optimism.

Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah’s pre-independence clarion call, “Seek ye first the political kingdom and all else shall be added unto you,” was particularly politically edifying for the expectant formerly oppressed black majority.

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